FARICE-1

FARICE-1
Red is submarine, Blue is terrestrial, now extended to London.
Owners: Farice
Landing points Seyðisfjörður, Iceland Funningsfjørður, Faroe Islands Dunnet Bay, Caithness, Highland, Scotland
Total length	1,205 kilometres (749 mi)
Design capacity	720 Gbit/s
Currently lit capacity	11 Tbit/s
Date of first use	January 2004 (2004-01)

FARICE-1 is a submarine communications cable connecting Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland. The cable has been in use since January 2004 and is 100% owned by Iceland. The cable had an initial design capacity of 720 Gbit/s and is a two fibre pair design. The length of the cable is 1205 km for the direct route between Iceland and Scotland. The cable structure and repeaters were made by Pirelli and the terminal equipment was supplied by TYCO. In the year 2013 the terminal equipment was upgraded by Ciena (100 Gbit/s technology) bringing the total capacity of the submarine cable to 11 Tbit/s. The cable has service access points in Reykjavik and Keflavik Airport as well as in London Telehouse East. The company Farice ehf sells services over the FARICE-1 cable. FARICE-2 was never built. DANICE is the complementary submarine cable.

The landing points are:

• 1. Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, backhauled to Reykjavík and KEF Airport
• 3. Funningsfjørður, Faroe Islands, backhauled to 4. Tórshavn
• 5. Dunnet Bay, Caithness, Highland, Scotland, backhauled to London Telehouse (previously Edinburgh)

See also

• Danice
• SHEFA-2
• Greenland Connect
• CANTAT-3

External links

• Official website
• Hannigan, Martin (13 February 2009). Update on North Atlantic Networks (PDF). UKNOF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
• Complete network with DANICE as Service Access Points Archived 7 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.